One interesting facet of Lovecraft’s story is how HBD-friendly it is; in fact, “The Call of Cthulhu” could be called “HBD literature,” if such a genre exists. In the story, you find ancient gods (extraterrestrials), which are adamantly worshiped by non-whites, especially blacks, mulattoes, and mestizos. These gods are primordial. Whites, however, seem to have more difficult time intuiting these gods and when they do, they often die. Professor George Gammell Angell, the Norwegian sailor, and the narrator (it’s implied) all die after coming into some form of contact with Cthulhu. It reminds me of a passage from Nicholas Wade’sThe Faith Instinct where someone states that Westerners (European-descended people) now seem psychologically incapable…